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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 155

Platinum Grand Réveil Jaeger-LeCoultre, ?Calendrier Perpétuel, Grand Réveil?, No. 017/250, Ref. 180.6.03. Made in a limited edition of 250 examples in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, large, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, mechanical alarm on a bronze bell, 24-hour indication, 3 crowns and a stainless steel Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with six titanium screws, stepped bezel, fluted and curved lugs, alarm winding-crown at 2, time setting and winding-crown at 4, push-button for quick adjustment of the calendar at 8. D. White with applied luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, the months and the 24 hours in red and black numbers, apertures for the decade and year at 1 and for the moon phases at 6, outer 1/5th second graduation, outermost alarm track. Blued steel skeleton hands with luminous tips, red arrow hand for the alarm. M. Cal. 919, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to four positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, ball-bearing rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 15 mm. Property of a European Gentleman